pytest Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

pytest
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring pytest skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 111 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing pytest 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.26% 0.053% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.37% 0.29% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £478 - -
25th Percentile £486 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.68% - -
75th Percentile £532 - -
90th Percentile £603 - -
England median daily rate £525 £495 £600
% change year-on-year +6.06% -17.50% +4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

pytest falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 366 341 314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.16% 18.17% 15.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 186 220
10th Percentile £374 £363 £325
25th Percentile £445 £463 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.23% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £617 £635 £600
90th Percentile £700 £750 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 2 3
10th Percentile £27.21 £19.33 £17.20
25th Percentile £33.91 £26.94 £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £42.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.34% +141.43% -69.83%
75th Percentile - £59.94 £30.63
90th Percentile - £68.98 £38.50
England median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £56.95
% change year-on-year -16.92% +14.14% -12.38%

pytest
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing pytest relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

pytest job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

pytest
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing pytest.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing pytest

pytest
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing pytest in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for pytest in the West Midlands

pytest
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing pytest within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Shropshire - 4 £490 - 5
pytest
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) SAS
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
1 1 (20.00%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
2 4 (80.00%) GitLab
2 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (80.00%) JUnit
2 4 (80.00%) Selenium
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation Specialist
1 4 (80.00%) Test Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) Django
2 1 (20.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (20.00%) Flask
2 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (20.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (20.00%) Swagger
2 1 (20.00%) WebSockets
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) Data Management
2 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (80.00%) Integration Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Sprint Planning
2 4 (80.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Test Strategy
3 3 (60.00%) Data Strategy
3 3 (60.00%) Defect Management
3 3 (60.00%) Regression Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
3 3 (60.00%) Visual Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft